Terence "Terry" Nile

B.Sc., 1969; M.Sc. 1970; D. Phil., 1974, University of Sussex. Instructor at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro; 1980-81, Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford; 1987, Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University

The synthesis and properties of transition metal carbene complexes has been an area of fertile development with the preparation of many compounds being reported in the past few years(1). Interest is now being shown in the catalytic activity of comple...

A series of metal acetylacetonates [M(acacn] was characterized electrochemically using cyclic voltammetry and Differential Pulse Voltammetry. The Nicholson and Shain criteria [1, 2] was used to determine the electrochemical reduction mechanisms of th...

The addition of trialkoxysilanes across the carbonyl bond in crotonaldehyde has been demonstrated for a variety of nickel(0) complexes. The carbon—carbon double bond is left intact. This differs from catalysts used previously, such as chloroplatinic ...

The catalytic activity of tris(pentanedionato)rhodium(III), (or rhodium(III) acetylacetonate) (I) has been investigated for the hydrosilylation of a variety of organic substrates: alkenes, terminal or internal acetylenes, conjugated dienes, or a,ß-un...

The hydrosilylation of cyclohexadienes using Ni(acac)2 -Al(OEt)Et2 gives only the allylic cyclohexenylsilane with both 1,3- or 1,4-(in presence of a phosphine) cyclohexadienes. The reactions with the isomeric cis- or trans-1, 3-pentadienes (giving 1:...

The room temperature hydrosilylation of linear 1,3-dienes and 1,3- or 1,4- cyclohexadienes using octacarbonyldicobalt(0) is described. Both cyclic dimers yield regiospecifically 2-cyclohexenylsilanes. The 2,3-dimethyl-1,3-butadiene (DMBD)/HSi(OSiMe3)...

The hydrosilylation of 1-pentyne by triethylsilane has been investigated using rhodium catalysts, formed by displacement of cyclooctene from dichlorotetrakis(cyclooctene)dirhodium(I) by various molar ratios of phosphines. The results are interpreted ...

Iridium complexes have been found to be active as catalysts for hydrosilylation reactions, especially for those involving 1,3-dienes and 1-alkynes. For ketones, iridium complexes show maximum activity if one molar equivalent (relative to iridium) of ...

The structure of 4,4'-bipyridinium diiodide has been determined. The diprotonated cation possesses crystallographic inversion symmetry with the pyridyl rings coplanar. The crystal packing is dominated by weak but directional N-H···I (N···I distance o...

The catalytic activity of rhodium complexes for the hydrosilylation of substrates such as alkenes, 1,3-dienes, 1-alkynes, or ketones, is enhanced by the addition of organic oxidizing agents, such as t-butyl hydroperoxide, hydrogen peroxide, or m-chlo...

2-Alkyl-6,6-dialkylfulvenes are synthesized by the condensation of monosubstituted 1,3-cyclopentadienes with carbonyl compounds in the presence of pyrrolidine and converted to the corresponding dialkyl-1,3-cyclopentadienes by the addition of nucleoph...

The catalytic activity of various rhodium carbene complexes has been investigated. These complexes are active for the hydrosilylation of a wide variety of unsaturated organic molecules such as olefins, acetylenes and dienes. Their activity is compara...

The activity of rhodium phosphite complexes as catalyst precursors for hydrosilylation reactions has been investigated. These are found to be active for a wide variety of organic substrates. Both hydride clusters, [RhH[P(OR3)}2]n and chloride dimers,...

Two phosphine-rhodium(II) complexes, bis(tris-o-tolylphosphine)dichlororhodium(II) and bis(tricyclohexyl-phosphine)dichlororhodium(II), have been found to be active catalysts for the hydrosilylation of a variety of organic substrates, and, in conjunc...

The use of metal complexes on supports such as silica and alumina provides a method for heterogenizing homogeneous catalysts, allows easy recovery of catalysts from the product mixture, and also facilitates recovery of such systems in fixed bed react...

The synthesis of a complete series of substituted 4,5,6,7-tetrahydroindenes (4,5,6,7-tetrahydroindene, 1; 1-methyl-, 1,3-dimethyl- and 1,2,3-trimethyl-4,5,6,7-tetrahydroindene, 2-4) is reported. The synthesis of ferrocenes (8-11) from these substitut...

The synthesis of 1,3-dialkyl substituted cyclopentadienes, C5H4RR', Cp'H (Va-g) (where R and R' are tert-butyl, isopropyl, neo-pentyl, cyclohexyl, or 1-methylcyclohexyl) is reported. These are synthesized by the nucleophilic addition of methyl or hyd...

(+)- and (-)-2 ,3-O-isopropylidene-2,3-dihydroxy-1,4-bis(diphenylarsino)butane, the arsenic analogs of (+)- and (-)-diop have been synthesized in good yields. These ligands give similar optical yields to diop in the asymmetric hydrosilylation of keto...

Many metal co-ordination complexes have been investigated as potential anti-cancer drugs with a rich diversity of effects and toxicity (1). One of the most successful is cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II), which is an active anti-tumor agent at low con...

Synthesis of two substituted cyclopentadienes, 1,3-bis(1-methylcyclohexyl) cyclopentadiene, Cp'H and [2-methyl-2-(2-pyridyl)ethyl]cyclopentadiene, Cp"H from fulvene intermediates is reported. These are readily converted to their early transition meta...